California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Guerrero-Jasso, G054577 (Cal. App. 2018):
[Fifth Amendment] privilege, but also of the consequences of forgoing it. It is only through an awareness of these consequences that there can be any assurance of real understanding and intelligent exercise of the privilege." (Id. at p. 469; see also Colorado v. Spring (1987) 479 U.S. 564, 574 ["The Miranda warnings ensure that a waiver of [the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination] is knowing and intelligent by requiring that the suspect be fully advised of this constitutional privilege, including the critical advice that whatever he chooses to say may be used as evidence against him"].)
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